[quote=“Dragonbones”]What are you whining about now, TomHill?
There are two basic reasons, as I see it, for not posting purely in non-North-American languages on this forum. [/quote]
and which north american language would that be? cherokee?
far as I know, english is a latin-germanic language… or have the 51 states forgotten where they came from?..
No, many remember that they came from Mexico.
[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”][quote=“TainanCowboy”]I speak and translate jive.
Rates on request.[/quote]Knock yourself a pro slick. Gray matter back got perform’ us’ down I take TCBin, man’. Slap Mae Fro.[/quote]
I also speak fluent American jive (my brother in law grew up in the ghetto and is a good teacher) and I’m completely flummoxed by this. Is this some sort of UK jive dialect?
[quote=“Tomas”]Is this some sort of UK jive dialect?[/quote]No, it’s from the film “Airplane”, so completely authentic.
wo zhen bu zaihu tomhill xiang shenme dongxi. Zhe shi wo yong pinyin goutong de jihui. women de yong pinyin goutong de jihui tai shao, suoyi jinbu hao nan. rang wo xiang xiang yixia, hai yao shuo shenme dongxi…?
ah, yexu wo hui jiao zhongwen. hao lihai. wo de pengyou zhu zai zheli, you hen hao de gongzuo, hen hao jiali, keshi ta de shijian bu guo duo. Ta juede hao lei. wo yao bangzhu ta chuangzao yi ge tingli huanjing. Zai zheige tingli huanjing women xuyao youqu, jiandan, youyong de dongxi. Ta xuyao ting zhen hao duo. Ranhou ta hui jinbu hao kuai.
Dui bu qi zheige meiyou shengdiao.
ni Yao wo JIAO ni zenme* PAIShe ni Ziji de ZHONGweN yingPian ma*? Zhe Shi hen hao de* xuE ZHONGweN de* Banfa YINWei ni YINGGAI juEDing ni Yao xuE sheNme* DONGXI. haiyou ni xUYao xiE YI ge* Juben. haiyou ni xUYao paIyan. haiyou ni xUYao PAIshe ni de* yingPIAN. haiyou ni xUYao jianji ni de* yingPIAN. ranhou ni keyi Kan ni Ziji PAIShe de yingPIAN. Zhe Shi hao DUO chonGFu.
Thanks Tom. I really needed to practice that last bit (with the tones)
Oia mau nō na kanāka a pau… 
[quote=“Dragonbones”]What are you whining about now, TomHill?
There are two basic reasons, as I see it, for not posting purely in non-North-American languages on this forum. 
One is that moderators need to be able to keep tabs on whether posts violate the rules. If there are mods who happen to speak the language in question, that’s really not a concern, right?
The other is that it’s designed primarily as an English-language site, and posts should be accessible to the majority of users. In some cases, however, this may reasonably be overlooked, such as with the Chinese language posts in the Learning Chinese forum, which is quite rationally relevant to the context of this forum, which is life in Taiwan.
If neither of these is the reason for the complaint, then what else is, other than bullshit imperialistic ethnocentrism? (no offense intended) The world is not restricted to one language, so why the attempt to tyrannically impose one language on others? How many languages do you speak, anyway?
Oh my GOD!!! People speaking a language I can’t understand!!! My sorry *** feels so threatened!!! 
Get a life![/quote]
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Eu tambem quero praticar escriver em qualquera lengua que penso no momento. em todo o caso acho que voces sois alguns vagabundos e nao me importa que pensais de mim. se voce quer escriver em outra lengua esso nao quer dizer que voce e melhor que eu. agora vou a fumar maconha e ver a televisao. Obrigado por ter a paciencia de ler esta merda!
I suspect no one on Forumosa posts purely.